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In addition to defining directories to search for imports and includes, you can add a CatalogManager.properties file to the DAFFODIL_CLASSPATH to direct Daffodil to a relative path location of a user XML Catalog. For information on the CatalogManager.properties file, visit the following website:http://xerces.apache.org/xml-commons/components/resolver/tips.html#properties
DAFFODIL_JAVA_OPTS
If you need to specify java options specific to Daffodil, you can set the DAFFODIL_JAVA_OPTS environment variable. If not specified, the JAVA_OPTS environment variable will be used. If that is not specified, reasonable defaults for Daffodil will be used.
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